Trace of Evil

Natalie Lockhart is a rookie detective in Burning Lake, New York, an isolated town with a dark past. She has been tasked with tracing nine transients who have gone missing over the years, work that keeps circling back to the town's troubled history and to the unsolved murder of her own sister years earlier.

Then Daisy Buckner, a beloved local schoolteacher, is found dead on her kitchen floor. As Natalie works the case, it becomes clear the victim kept secrets of her own, and the evidence that accumulates ripples outward through everyone Natalie knows.

The first Natalie Lockhart novel, from the author of Darkness Peering, is an atmospheric police procedural about a small town, the things it has buried, and the young detective determined to dig them up.